The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-08
Items from the Courts.

DISMISSAL OF LIQUOR CASES.
Patrolman BEEN has withdrawn the prosecu-
ton of the liquor cases against Peter Wagner,
which were to have been tried before Squire
Feibleman yesterday afternoon. The saloon
men are urging Wagner to bring suit against
BEEN for false Imprisonment, and he says he
will perhaps do So
WOULDN'T RETURN TO HER HUSBAND.
Mrs Maggie Dawson, of Marion in May. 1886,
left home to visit friends in this city She re-
manned here several months, and when her hus-
band wrote to her to come home she refused to
do so. He came here in search Of her but was
unable to find her, and has not seen her since
she left him. He has concluded that she does
not intend to ever live with him again, and has
filed complaint with the county clerk here for
divorce
COMPROMISE OF Elk SHERIFF CARRIERS SUIT.
When George Carter retired from the sherff's
Office the County Commissioners refused to pay
a bill of $407.20 he presented for boarding pris
oners that bad been sent to Jail from the JUS
tees courts. The commissioners claimed that
the prisoners should have been transferred to
the work house Mr.. Carter brought suit against
the county for the amount. Yesterday the suit
was compromised by the commissioners agreeing
to nay Mr.. Carter $500. the amount it would
have cost to maintain the prisoners at the work
house.
DRUGGIST FINED FOR LIQUOR SELLING.
The Mayor yesterday morning, rendered his
decision in the Denke- " alter liquor case finding
the defendant guilty and fning him in two cases.
amounting in all to $4S26. The defense of
Denke-Walter was that, as a druggist he had
the right to sell liquor for medicinal purposes
The Mayor held that the case covered by a
decision of the Supreme Court of Indiana in the
case of Barton VS.. the State, where the plaintiff
was not only druggist but practicng physi-
clan. Druggists, he said. were liable to a fine for
selling liquor even for medical cases, except on
the order of a prescription, even though he has
a personal knowledge that the liquer is for medi-
cal purposes. DR.. Denke- Walter will not take
an appeal.
MR. HELwIG'S DEFENSE.
There was'little of interest in the trial of the
Indianapolis chair mandatory receivership case
yesterday. The evidence for the defense was all
in tefors noon, and Charles f. Helwig president
of the company, took the stand in his own be-
half. He acknowledged that he had made the
San Francisco investment without consultin e
the directors and in fact. had assumed almost
complete control of the firms affairs, claiming
that he had the right as president and owner of
the majority Of shares He showed that the
stock of the company is now selling at good
premium, and. though the firm had lost money
in the past two years. he claimed that was moi
the fault of the management. The case viii
probably come to an end to-day.
SENTENCE OF A NEGRO DESPERATE.
Ed Harvey. the colored man who shot Willis
Stanton at an entertainment. at Lyra Hall, O.
the It'll of last November, had his trial yester
day morning. in the Criminal Court, and wa!
sentenced to four years in the penitentiary
After the shooting occurred, Harvey left the
city. ana did not return until a month ago. hav
ing heard. he says, that the matter was 'fxe(
mp" He was arrested the evening after his re
turn at the house Of relative. He came her,
from Louisville two years ago, and during his
career here was regarded by the police as the
most dangerous person among the colored mer
of the city He styled himself 'the coloreC
Jesse James of Indiana" and figured in severa
| shooting scrapes and Away evaded arrest